15: Reducing Toxins in Your Home With Dr. Samantha Radford (Evidence-Based Mommy)

05/01/23 • 28 min

Dr. Samantha Radford owns Evidence-based Mommy (evidence-basedmommy.com), where she combines science and wellness to help moms and kids thrive. She is a mom of 4 who has breastfed for nearly 10 years straight. She has been through the highs and lows of natural term breastfeeding, including nursing while pregnant, tandem feeding, nursing aversion, and more.
In this episode we deep dive the biggest toxin exposures to your little one in the early years of life and how to avoid them.
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14: Extended Nursing In Real Life - Erin Harris' Story 4.5 years of nursing (Nursing Mamas)

I sit down with veteran nursing mom and virtual lactation educator, Erin Harris, to talk about her personal breastfeeding journey, the struggles that extended breastfeeding moms face, and how we can navigate them while keeping the bond and ditching the burnout.
Erin is a virtual lactation educator and creator of Nursing Mamas. She combines her two Master's Degrees in Health and Family communication, lactation knowledge, and personal nursing experience to focus on the parent-toddler nursing relationship. Through online courses and consults she helps extended breastfeeding women who aren't ready to wean, but are feeling overwhelmed by on-demand nursing and are ready to set breastfeeding boundaries so they can keep the bond without the burnout. She lives in Costa Mesa, CA with her husband Scott, daughter, Avery, and son, Luca, and is a veteran nursing mama of 4 1⁄2 years.
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16: Your Boob-Addicted Toddler And the Toddler Breastfeeding Stress Cycle

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Your toddler's boob addiction is actually a *GOOD* thing - AND there is a really good reason why it drives you nuts.
Your toddler is still waking frequently at night to breastfeed. You can’t leave them with anyone without an *epic* meltdown. You are embarrassed to take them to the park because of the amount of shirt-pulling that is likely to occur, and it seems everyone around you thinks you should have had this figured out already.
In our culture, all of those things are pretty “strange” for a toddler to be doing.
Because it’s strange, our brains immediately go to “bad”. Psychologically, we want to be like our peers. Practically, the standards we are used to measuring our child against (milestones, growth charts, etc.) are based on averages. “Kids that fall outside of the norm have something wrong with them” is an unconscious belief that is easy to develop.

Your toddler is addicted to your breast, and your only options are tough love or toughing it out. Or so you perceive....
But here is what your unconscious brain misses - it’s not your child with the problem. It’s the culture.

Now, I know that doesn’t seem to leave a lot of hope. You’re thinking: “I can’t change the culture, Jenna. Am I supposed to surrender to this chaos and hope that I survive until my child magically stops being a boob-monster?”

I promise you, there is an alternative to the “tough-love/toughing-it-out” conundrum.
You don’t have to force your child to do anything they aren’t ready for, *and* you don’t have to wait until they decide they are no longer going to scream “BOOB” as they dig their hands into your bra at your in-law’s thanksgiving table. (No? Just me?)
Despite what others around you might say, your child still being “addicted” to breastfeeding is a good thing.
(Catch the blog post that inspired this podcast episode here.)

Start to Stop Toddler Breastfeeding - 15: Reducing Toxins in Your Home With Dr. Samantha Radford (Evidence-Based Mommy)

Transcript

So, you know, I have my PhD in exposure science, which is basically what kinds of toxic chemicals are we exposed to and how do they affect our body, especially either as women of childbearing age.
Or children, whether you know, before they're born or after. And the thing about a lot of these toxic chemicals, including pesticides or lead or whatever, you know, might be in food, is that they have these long-term effects, like the butterfly effect. You know, a little change here can have a lif